On 1/3/11 12:22 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
Alternately, we could look at using HTTP access control headers on upload.wikimedia.org, to allow XMLHTTPRequest in newer browsers to make unauthenticated requests to upload.wikimedia.org and return data directly:
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTTP_Access_Control
That would allow the front-end code to just pull the destination URLs from imageinfo and fetch the image data directly.
Yes. I have no trouble only enabling this for modern browsers, with just Apache config. SVG isn't even available on any version of IE in general use, including IE8.
This doesn't seem to be terribly hard to config in Apache. Looks like something Commons should be doing generally for its image servers.
Michael Dale is the expert on proxying though, and it has a more legit use case for simpler uploads and searching. Any thoughts, Michael?